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Re:Getting hired after fifty on Sunday May 01, 2022 @03:06AM (#31222845)
You can easily tell a person’s fitness level just from face
Might be worth experimenting with giving up caffeine. I noticed pretty immediate changes.

www.reddit.com/r/decaf for lots of anecdotal stories

Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:29PM (#27241865)
The Gas station near where I live (California and Steiner) buzzes you in if you are there outside core hours.

The Burberry store near Union square buzzes you in at all hours. Well at least the two times I visited.

Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:19PM (#27241765)
The Walgreens near where I life (Bush and Fillmore) has a padlock on the red bull fridge. It was pretty shocking to get back from spending awhile in Korea where convenience stores are plentiful, 24/7, and fast to find this new development.
Re:Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:07PM (#26297073)
I don’t believe you can turn on file vault if you do this (full disk encryption)
That statement ended up proving to be quite ironic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II#Role_in_the_...
Re:AeroFS is now free up to 30 users on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:59PM (#9226901)
Re:Show HN: Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux on Thursday October 16, 2014 @02:42AM (#8463680)
Great readme explaining why to use this over scrot (the tool I use atm) and others. An improved render rectangle was the first item I checked for (saw this mentioned in slop). Section with examples of of other commands to combine is great as well.

I think good readmes are a bit undervalued on GitHub.